13:00 // 12/21/2006 A source in the Turkmen opposition claims that the closest relatives of the deceased President of the Republic of Saparmurat Niyazov today or tomorrow will arrive in Ashgabat. They are currently abroad, RIA Novosti reports. This information was received from people who managed to chat with the widow of Niyazov. The son of Niyazov Murad, who is in the United Arab Emirates, will also soon fly to the republic. Source: gzt.ru

13:45 // 12/21/2006 The Federal Agency for Subsoil Use (Rosnedra) has no complaints about the implementation of the terms of licensing agreements of subsidiaries in Russia by the International company "Peter Hambro Mining", in particular, to licenses of Yamal-Zoloto, ITAR-TASS reports. This was reported to reporters by deputy head of Rosnedr Vladimir Bavlov. "We have no complaints about the" daughters "" Peter Hambro Mining ", these are conscientious investors and subsoil users," he said.

A journey to the Holy Land with an English accent on the blazing Middle East is still a country where a foreigner manages to see the shrines and antiquity, plunge into the waters of the Jordan, the Red and Dead Sea, without plunging into the heroic of everyday life, or the bitterness of memories. This country is the Jordanian Khahemitian kingdom. Here everyone speaks English, love Russians, do not pester with proposals, show purely British restraint and royal hospitality.

Saparmurat Niyazov died one of the long -livers of the post -Soviet space, Saparmurat Niyazov, died. Thus, the forecast of the "newspaper" of October 4 - Turkmenbashi is unlikely to live to the new year. Together with him, the "Golden Age of Turkmenistan" may well end - this is how the time after the collapse of the USSR was officially called in this Central Asian country, when Niyazov was in power.

... What else would Valery Dmitrievich Zorkin want from power? The actual removal of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (COP) to exile in the Golden St. Petersburg cell is the natural result of the development of Russian legislative and law enforcement practice of the last five to six years described by the Russian folk words “The law is what you can do, it has come out there”.

The Gazeta continues the project "Football Stavka". Weekly on Fridays, the newspaper observers - popular sports commentators will give copyright forecasts for matches of European football championships. Forecast of the French D1 tour from Alexander Shmornov Having guessed the two “tops” in the 18th round, your humble servant cannot afford to sit back on the eve of the last game day of 2006.

A lawsuit against the seller of music files AllofMP3.com is filed a collective lawsuit against the Russian company MediaService, which owns the site Allofmp3.com, selling music, was filed in the National District of New York. The plaintiffs are such sound recordings as Warner Bros., Sony BMG, Capital Records, UMG and others. "MediaService" is accused of illegally selling albums and compositions via the Internet and a rude copyright violation.

Actor Vladimir Kachan - in an interview with Gazeta, a wonderful Russian actor and writer Leonid Filatov would have turned 60 years old. In the last years of his life, he was seriously ill, and three years ago, in October 2003, he was gone. On the eve of the current anniversary, the correspondent of the newspaper Gleb Sitkovsky turned to a close friend and classmate Leonid Filatov Vladimir Kachan. - Nina Shatskaya told me that there will be no anniversary evening dedicated to Filatov this year.

15:35 // 12/21/2006 A soldier from the Sakhalin garrison was found hanged. Two of his colleagues are suspected of committing a murder of a soldier. A resident of Tatarstan Rail Bikmukhametov was called up for military service this summer, Echo of Moscow reports. A week ago, the colleagues found Raile hanged on a tree outside the part. On the body of the deceased, numerous bruises and injuries were recorded.

Vladimir Putin instructed to solve the demographic problem in the Kremlin yesterday the next meeting of the Council of Legislators with the participation of Vladimir Putin. The main topic was demography. Having recognized the almost catastrophic reduction of the population, the head of state ordered the regions to develop “own strategies” of solving the problem.

14:56 // 12/21/2006 The ceremony of presenting the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of the Golden Eagle will be held on January 27 in the first pavilion of Mosfilm. The nominees were also announced for the Golden Eagle Award for 2006, which is awarded in 20 nominations, RIA Novosti reports.

Madrid “Real” largely loses at home to the debutant. Examples of the middle of the pre -science week were marked by “additional” tours on the main European peninsulas. The "sign" did not please the fans of the Madrid Real Madrid, who suffered a sensational defeat from the modest "recreational" from Welva. In Italy, meanwhile, there were no revolutionary events: the leaders' trio, retaining the internal status quo, increased the separation from the rest of the league.

Russia inevitably loses the demographic war. Yesterday, at the Council of Legislators, President Vladimir Putin announced that the country's population is not only steadily declining, but also rapidly ages. “Over the past 13 years,” the president calculated, “the number of people who passed away has exceeded the number of born by 11.2 million people.” And "the share of people over 65 is now 13.7%," which exceeds twice as a certain international standard.

09:59 // 12/21/2006 In Turkmenistan, the death of President Saparmurat Niyazov was announced, RIA Novosti reports. He died of a sudden cardiac arrest. Turkmen television shows the state flag in a mourning frame. Niyazov was 66 years old. He was the permanent leader of Turkmenistan for more than twenty years. The fact that Niyazov had problems with the heart has been known for a long time. In 1997, in Germany, he conducted an operation on aorticronary bypassing.

15:19 // 12/21/2006 Because of the fog that sank into England, many people cannot leave the country. The bad weather overtook Britain at the wrong time-on the eve of Christmas, which is traditionally the most busy time for air carriers, the London Hitrovo Airport abolished almost a quarter of flights due to poor visibility. Similarly, things are at other airports of Great Britain: so, 30 airports are closed in Scotland.